86                      VRIOUS FORMS OF SUPERSCRIPTION.

SU PERSCRIPTIONS.

A letter to Germany will be superscribed
somewhat as follows:
JOHN KOENIG, Esq.,
SPANDA U,
Year BerZl.n, Pneeeta.  PRUSSIA-
Letter from Germany:
Mr. KARL SOBULZE,
           BLOOMINGTON,
United States       McLEAN CO.,
of America.          ILLINOIS.
The county, town, etc., on a letter to
Ireland, is shown on the envelope as
follows:
Mr. PATRICK McGUIRE,
"ENNISKILLEN,
Countir of
iFermanagh.         IRELAND.

When it is desired to have the letter  To a man and woman, engaged as part-
returned, if not called for, sooner than it ners in business, but unmarried, the ad-
otherwise would be, the direction may be dress-may read:
so specified upon the upper left hand    Mr. Win. H. Smith and Miss X'ary H. Booc".
comer, similar to the following:         Or, W. R. Smith and Marv H. Boo".

W. 8. KE.COOK0:911O.
GEN. H. B. COOKE,
SARATOGA SPRINGS,
NEW YORK.

To a husband and wfe, where the wife,
alone, has the title, the superscription will
read:
Mr. J. B. and Mrs. Dr. R. L. King.
To a husband and wife, each of whom
have a title, the address may be as follows:
Rev. W H. and Mrs. Dr. A. B. Smith.

W   Where the wife has a title, and is, alone,
Where it is desired to express the title _  ... ._   ..    .

of the husband, on a letter or note of
invitation to the husband and wife, the
following form may be used:
His Bxeellencv and Mrs. U. S. Grant.
Governor and Mrs. Win. H. Brown.
Hon. and Mrs. D. B. Henderson.
Bev. and Mrs. Chas. H. Smith.
Professor and Mrs. K. A. Benson.
Where a letter is addressed to a husband
and wife, each of whom have a title, the'
address may read as follows:
.Drs. John B. and J*ane H. Brown.

addresseu, tn form. may De
Rev. Mrs. Chas. D. King.
Or, Rev. Mrs. Jane E. King.
Or, Rev. Jane E. King.
If the lady's husband, alone, has the
title, the address will properly read:
Mrs. Rev. Chas. D. King.
If the lady is unmarried, and is a minis-
ter of the gospel or physician, her address
may read:
Rev. Miss Mary Williams.
Or, Rev. MarV Williams.
Miss Dr. HeZen E. Snow.
Or, Dr. elen B. Snow.

Suggestions.

If people wish to have their letters perfectly
secure from observation it is better to seal them
with wax, which cannot be broken without ex-
posure. The ordinary envelope is easily opened,
and sealed again, leaving no trace of the fact;
though a very heavy fine is imposed as a pen-
alty on any one convicted of opening a letter,
that is not authorized to do so.
In the United States, a letter not called for
within a certain length of time is then adver-
tised, after which it is held thirty days, when,
no owner being found, the letter js forwarded
to the Dead-Letter Office at Washington, where
it is opened. If the address of the person who
wrote the letter can there be learned, the letter
is then returned to the writer.
If the name or address be written or printed
upon the envelope, instead of going to the
Dead-Letter Office, the letter will be returned
to the writer at the expiration of thirty days. If

desirous of having it sooner returned, the writer
should add, "Return in 5 days," or "10 days,"
etc., as seen in the letter of W. B. Keen, Cooke &
Co., shown above.
It is safest for persons sending letters to
pl4ce stamps upon the envelopes themselves,
and not depend upon postmasters or their clerks
to do so, as, in their haste, they sometimes for-
get directions.
It has been suggested that the State be writ-
ten first upon the envelope; thus,
MISSOURI,
CORNTWG,
JOHN SMITH.
As the State to which the letter is directed, is,
however, no more conspicious at the top of the
superscription than at the bottom, there is no
advantage gained in this mode of address, on
the score of legibility.

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